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Colombian Academy of Genealogy

The Academia Colombiana de Genealogía is a private, non-profit, national and autonomous corporation devoted to the study of genealogy and history. It was founded informally in 2008 and legally constituted in 2010, in Bogotá, Colombia.

Today the Academy brings together more than 40 qualified professionals with expertise in genealogical research, who contribute their knowledge of historical, genealogical and family subjects. We assist and support everything related to family findings throughout Colombia and abroad.

Our history

In the late 1980s genealogical research in Colombia was a solitary and difficult activity. Around 2000, Luis Álvaro Gallo Martínez began inviting fellow genealogists to monthly meetings at the Casa de Antioquia in Bogotá, where authors presented their research. Those gatherings grew into the Academy: its first official meeting took place on June 26, 2008, and it was legally registered with the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce on March 19, 2010.

Since then the Academy has organized the Genealogy Meeting of 2011, hosted the XX American Meeting of Genealogy (Reunión Americana de Genealogía) in October 2017 and the II Genealogy Meeting in Bogotá in November 2019, and published three issues of its journal, Revista Ancestros (2014, 2023 and 2024). Luis Álvaro Gallo, its first president, is now Honorary President. In 2026 a new Board was elected, chaired by Jorge Hernán Velásquez Restrepo, and the Academy moved to its new seat on Avenida Circunvalar No. 20-53, Bogotá.

What you will find on this website (in Spanish)

• Members: profiles of our academicians, with their research regions, periods and fields.
• Juan Flórez de Ocáriz Library: digitized books, parish and notarial records, censuses, military records and research papers.
• Boletín de Genealogías Colombianas: the bulletin edited by Luis Álvaro Gallo since 2002, with a surname search.
• The Academy's bulletin, with a surname search across all issues.
• Index of surnames studied by our members, recommended books on Colombian genealogy, sources and archives by region, and a glossary of genealogical terms.
• Monthly talks: public lectures, usually on a Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Bogotá time, recorded on our YouTube channel.

The rest of the website is in Spanish. Your browser's built-in translation (for example in Chrome, Edge or Safari) can translate any page for you.

How to join the Academy

1. Fill in the online pre-registration form on the “Únase a la Academia” page, attaching your CV and an essay or report of at least five pages explaining why you wish to join and presenting a complete genealogical research with its sources.
2. The Board reviews applications at its monthly meetings, so the process takes at least one to two months.
3. If your application is accepted, you will be asked to pay a registration fee equal to one twelfth of the current Colombian monthly minimum wage, plus an annual fee equal to one quarter of the current Colombian monthly minimum wage, and to complete a final form.
4. Applications received from October to December take effect the following year.

The forms and the application process are in Spanish.

Contact

Email the Editorial Office
Phone and WhatsApp: +57 311 479 4961
Seat: Avenida Circunvalar No. 20-53, Bogotá, Colombia

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